Look up: accuracy

1. Accuracy
   How closely a measured value agrees with the correct value.
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2. Accuracy
   Also known as Precision Landing, this is a competition discipline in which the skydiver attempts to land on an established target. At the National level the target is 3 cm in diameter, about the size of a quarter. Accuracy landings of various difficulty, from 20 meters to 2 meters, are required for USPA licenses. See the SIM for details
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3. Accuracy
   Is the correctness of a measure when comparing to a known standard
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4. Accuracy
   The extent to which the results of a calculation or reading of an instrument approach the true values of the calculated or measured quantities and are free from error.
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5. Accuracy
   The closeness of the results of observations, computations or estimates to the true values or the values accepted as being true. Accuracy relates to the exactness of the operation by which the result is obtained.
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6. accuracy
   [n] - (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number 2. [n] - the quality of nearness to the truth or the true value
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7. Accuracy
   These terms are often used interchangeably to indicate how well a scale displays the correct results. Accuracy is the ability to display a value that matches the ideal value for a known weight.
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8. Accuracy
   The determination of whether any element width or inter-character gap width (if applicable) differs from its nominal width by more than the printing tolerance
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9. Accuracy
   Accuracy is the correctness of a single measurement. The accuracy of a measurement is assessed by comparing the measurement with the true or accepted value, based on evidence independent of the measurement. The closeness of an average to a true value is referred to as 'trueness'.Typically described ...
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10. Accuracy
    The closeness of the agreement between the result of the measurement and the conventional true value of the quantity.
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11. Accuracy
    How closely a measured value agrees with the correct value.
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12. accuracy
    Compare with precision and trueness. Accuracy is the correctness of a single measurement. The accuracy of a measurement is assessed by comparing the measurement with the true or accepted value, based on evidence independent of the measurement. The closeness of an average to a true value is referred to as 'trueness'.
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13. Accuracy
    Closeness of agreement between a single test result or measurement result and the true value.
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14. Accuracy
    The combined error of nonlinearity, repeatability, and hysteresis expressed as a percent of full scale output.
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15. accuracy
    a) a quality of that which is free of error; b) a qualitative assessment of freedom from error, a high assessment corresponding to a small error; b) a quantitative measure of the magnitude of error, preferably expressed as a function of the relative error, a high value of this measure corresponding ...
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16. Accuracy
    The extent to which a machine vision system can correctly measure or obtain a true value of a feature. The closeness of the average value of the measurements to the actual dimension.
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17. Accuracy
    Ac'cu·ra·cy (#; 277) noun [ See Accurate .] The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of t...
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18. accuracy
    The degree to which a measurement, or an estimate based on measurements, represents the true value of the attribute that is being measured. In the laboratory accuracy of a test is determined when possible by comparing results from the test in question with results generated from an established reference method. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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19. Accuracy
    • (n.) The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
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20. accuracy
    (from the article `analysis`) Accuracy is the degree of agreement between the experimental result and the true value. Precision is the degree of agreement among a series of ...
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21. accuracy
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ak′kū-ră-sē Definitions: 1. The degree to which a measurement, or an estimate based on measurements, represents the true value of the attribute being measured. In the laboratory, accuracy of a test is determined when possible by comparing results from t...
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22. accuracy
    (mathematics) How close to the real value a measurement is. Compare precision. (1998-04-19)
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23. Accuracy
    The degree of uncertainty for which a measured value agrees the ideal value.
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24. Accuracy
    The extent to which the results of readings of an instrument approach the true value of the calculated or measured quantities, supposing that all possible corrections are applied.
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25. Accuracy
    The extent to which a machine vision system can correctly measure or obtain a true value of a feature. The closeness of the average value of the measurements to the actual dimension
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